The Pakistani army has killed up to 700 militants in the past four days in an attempt to drive the Taliban out of the north.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik’s announcement of 700 militants killed came as a witness and a police official reported new airstrikes in parts of the Swat Valley, a one-time tourist haven that fell prey to Taliban advances two years ago.

The Taliban are an increasing threat in Pakistan

“The operation will continue until the last Talib,” Malik said. “We haven’t given them a chance. They are on the run. They were not expecting such an offensive.”

The U.N. said Monday that 360,600 displaced people had registered in camps and centers since May 2 after fleeing Swat and neighboring Dir and Buner districts. That’s on top of some 500,000 people registered as displaced due to past offensives – a major humanitarian test for the weak government.

Jawad Khan, a university student who lives in the Kabal area of Swat, said jets bombed the nearby Dhada Hara village Monday morning.

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“I saw smoke and dust rising from the village,” Khan said, adding he didn’t know about casualties because of curfew restrictions, which have been enforced again.

Malik said the government was providing sufficient funds to help the displaced Pakistanis, and brushed aside fears that militants would try to infiltrate relief camps.

“This fear is baseless that they are melting down among the displaced people because we are screening the displaced people,” he said. “We are registering them with documents, checking each and every individual.”

Elsewhere in Pakistan’s northwest on Monday, a suicide bomber exploded his vehicle at a checkpoint, killing four civilians and a member of the Frontier Constabulary security force, police said.